Eastern Beskids and the Ukrainian Carpathians

Grofa, Gorgany range

The Eastern Beskids and the Ukrainian Carpathians are a geological group of mountain ranges of the Outer Eastern Carpathians, mostly in Ukraine. The region includes the mountainous far southeastern point of Poland and the far eastern point of Slovakia, then stretches southward through western Ukraine to the Romanian border.

Multiple traditions, languages and nationalities have developed overlapping variants for the divisions and names of these ranges. The Polish language name for the entire region is Beskidy Wschodnie, the "Eastern Beskids"; the Slovak language name is Poloniny; and Ukrainians call it the Ukrainian Carpathians.

At the three-way border, portions of the Slovakian Bukovec Mountains (Bukovské vrchy), the Polish Bieszczady Mountains (Bieszczady Zachodnie), and the adjacent Uzhansky National Nature Park and Nadsiansky Regional Landscape Park in Ukraine form the transnational East Carpathian Biosphere Reserve.

Components

map with ranges of the Eastern Beskids and the Ukrainian Carpathians labeled with "C"s. (Note the unmarked Ukrainian ranges to the west; these are the "Volcanic Ridge" ranges belonging to the Vihorlat-Gutin Area)

The ranges in this group include:

• the Slovakian Bukovec Mountains (Bukovské vrchy)
• the Polish Bieszczady Mountains (Bieszczady Zachodnie)
• the Góry Sanocko-Turczańskie range, along the Polish-Ukrainian border
• Skole Beskids (UA: Skolivs'ki Beskydy), partly or completely also known as High Beskids (Vysoki Beskydy); part of (Ukrainian) Eastern Beskids (Skhidni Beskydy)
• Upper Dniester Beskids (UA: Verkhn'odnistrovs'ki Beskydy), part of (Ukrainian) Eastern Beskids (Skhidni Beskydy)
• Gorgany (UA)
• Pokuttya-Bucovina Carpathians (UA, Pokuts'ko-Bukovins'ki Karpaty)
• Verkhovyna Carpathians
• Polonyna Rivna
• Polonyna Borzhava
• Polonyna Kuk
• Polonyna Krasna
• Svydovets
• Chornohora (Black Mountain) range, including Ukraine's highest peak, Hoverla
• Hrynyava Mountains

Divisions, Groups, and Ranges of the Carpathian Mountains Western Carpathians Inner Western Slovak Ore Mountains Fatra-Tatra Area Slovak Central Mountains Lučenec-Košice Depression Mátra-Slanec Area and North Hungarian Mountains Outer Western South-Moravian Carpathians Central Moravian Carpathians Slovak-Moravian Carpathians West-Beskidian Piedmont Western Beskids Central Beskids Eastern Beskids Podhale-Magura Area Eastern Carpathians Inner Eastern Vihorlat-Gutin Area Bistrița Mountains Căliman-Harghita Mountains Giurgeu-Brașov Depression Outer Eastern Central Beskidian Piedmont Low Beskids Eastern Beskids and the Ukrainian Carpathians Moldavian-Muntenian Carpathians Southern Carpathians Bucegi Mountains Făgăraș Mountains group Parâng Mountains group Retezat-Godeanu Mountains group Western Romanian Carpathians Apuseni Mountains Poiana Ruscă Mountains Banat Mountains Serbian Carpathians Homolje mountains Kučaj mountains Devica Rtanj Deli Jovan Vršački Breg Transylvanian Plateau (disputed) Outer Carpathian depressions